Officer Rivieri Suspended
Baltimore Police Officer Salvatore Rivieri was suspended after getting caught on video verbally abusing a teenager for calling him ‘dude’. I didn’t know dude was a derogatory term. Or maybe as a cop Rivieri things he should be addressed as ‘your Holiness’?
Besides threatening the youth, Rivieri put him in a headlock and forced him to the ground, so I suppose some of the viewers will cry physical abuse too — though since the boy was unhurt I don’t think that was abuse so much as stupidity. Oh, and telling the kid ’someone’ was going to kill him if he didn’t learn to show respect wasn’t too good a move either.
If you want to see the video, watch it here. Not exactly a Rodney King event, but enough to serve as a warning to authorities — Big Brother may be watching, but Little Brother is looking back.